June 23, 2026

Can Consumer Wearables Support PASC Monitoring?

Heart rate monitoring and atrial fibrillation detection had the strongest supporting evidence, but investigators found limited evidence for broader outpatient self-monitoring applications.

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June 23, 2026

Side Effects: Sour Mouth, Lower BP

Acidic gum beat sugar-free at cranking out nitric oxide from beetroot juice — exactly backward from what test-tube studies predicted. Also this week: a sleep gene that ignores amyloid, and jackfruit sap moonlighting as a bone-building drug delivery system.

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June 23, 2026

Shorter Initial Benzo Courses Linked to Discontinuation

Longer initial prescriptions, use of multiple benzodiazepines, and long-acting agents were associated with delayed discontinuation in a retrospective population-based cohort study.

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June 19, 2026

Moral Injury Tied to Emergency Physician Attrition

Interviews with 46 emergency physicians pointed to resource constraints, moral injury, and rigid career structures as contributors to attrition.

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June 16, 2026

ACP Suggests First-Line Obesity Drugs

Semaglutide and tirzepatide had the greatest net benefit among evaluated treatments, the committee concluded.

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June 11, 2026

When Bad Data Enters the Drug Pipeline

Federal prosecutors allege that a Florida physician and research staff fabricated clinical trial records that were submitted into database systems used to evaluate investigational drugs.

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June 11, 2026

Medical Oddities: The Economics of Shut-Eye

Sleep became a commodity, tea became a therapy, and cats got a reprieve this week.

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June 09, 2026

Salivary Marker May Reveal Sleep Deprivation

A machine-learning model distinguished samples collected following 1 night of total sleep deprivation from control and sleep-restriction conditions in a randomized crossover study of healthy young men.

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June 04, 2026

WHtR May Aid OSA Risk Screening

A US population analysis and a Chinese sleep-center cohort found that waist-to-height ratio was associated with obstructive sleep apnea risk, but stronger performance compared with body mass index was limited to clinically referred patients.

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June 04, 2026

Side Effects: The Body Keeps Score

Turns out biology tracks more than we thought — from a spit test that reads your all-nighter to a surgical outcome that still shows up in household chores two decades later. Plus: habits aren't built gradually. They snap.

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